skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think not using common license like GPL, BSD or MIT make people think twice before even trying the framework.
“Do you care to know why I’m in this chair… why I earn the big bucks? I'm here for one reason and one reason alone. I'm here to guess what the music might do a week, a month, a year from now, that’s it, nothing more.” John Tuld, Margin Call

I think about this movie all the time now that I’ve been in the corporate world for a while and I have realized one consistent outcome: the leaders who “guess” right a lot survive a hell of a lot longer than those who get it wrong.
You still live on them but now it is called Safari
User "forgetfreeman" has not actually looked up the budget of the US government.
> calling it "heat death" makes me think how the whole thing is steadily unraveling

"Heat death" seems especially appropriate when talking about google results being pages of nothing but scraped results of SEO rated pages of scraped results, ... Or youtube showing ads for ads for ads...

And how long before our AI results are built primarily on previous generations of AI results. Turtles all the way down to ... mindless nothing :(
Likely an unidentified illness
Safer for the passengers, but increasingly dangerous for pedestrians.
I use photoshop for this. Just switch the ruler and measurements to Inches and create fixed size boxes as needed. Takes me 3-5 minutes to create a mockup.
> In a working democracy you get people to see truth through public discourse, not censorship.

in an idealistic world, this is true.

Unfortunately, it is also empirically true that, at least in the USA, the majority of the voting population has become a bit dumb, and does not personally try to verify these things they see or hear on the news.

Civic duty in democracy includes this sort of scrutiny, but sadly this level of critical thinking has been in decline in recent decades.
I don't know if or not this is "coherent," but my experience has been that the type of person to oppose something like this is more often than not the type of person we were trying to filter out anyway. There may be some false negatives of course, but in terms of keeping the klan from high positions in your institution, this sort of thing seems to work.
UC Berkeley rejected 76% of applicants based on the DEI statement alone[1].

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/education/480603-what-is-uc-davi...
I think we have a disagreement about how to deal with a situation where two different concepts are called by the same name. In some sense they may seem the same because they have the same name, but in another they actually have no relationship. There is no logical path from A to B or vice versa. It’s not like the Norway terrorist was simply disagreeing with cultural Marxism in the academic sense. He wasn’t engaging with it at all, and simply borrowing the term (or more likely, organically reinventing it).

As a simple example, in the conspiracy, cultural Marxism is used nearly synonymously with multiculturalism. Neither of your links mention multiculturalism even once.
With the right font (e.g. http://viznut.fi/unscii/) and line spacing, braille characters work fine with an even distribution of pixels and no gaps.
Maybe

// this line is an external audit test - a free gift card to the first person to report finding it.
Killjoy.

(add smiley as appropriate)
I think at least some of the battlefronts talked about by this blog post were started by the ultra-wealthy in the US to draw the peasants attention away from Occupy Wall Street. That was the last "big thing" before identity politics took center stage. It pits us all against each other instead of pitting us against the rich.

China and Russia are likely responsible for some of these battlefronts, too.
I made the mental leap of “the advisor reached out because they saw the potential” which I assumed… was assumed.
Yes to all of this. What comes immediately to mind is the chip shop in Notting Hill that closed up recently and sold the terrace they were in for 5 million or something daft like that.

Rents, rates and generally just policy have made it impossible for real people to exist in basically any "known" area now.

Any new business that's even remotely interesting is either loss making or barely breaking even, and so has to have a rich backer.

I say rich here not as a slur, but to indicate that they can just decide to spend money on a pet project. That's not how business works, normal people with interesting ideas are pushed out as a result and all that works is huge mega chains and Instagram shit.

The odd oldschool place that is either owned outright or has some sort of mega long lease deal might hang on but again it's basically loss making like that chip shop, it'd make more money if you just sold it, which means normal people can't even do it in the first place.
None of Mark's new ideas take off: VR/AR, Metaverse, now AI. All of them just burnt a HUGE amount of money he made from his old adventures.

If he is not the boss, he might have got laid off couple of times long time ago.
Only around 20% of people killed by police are black. And obviously not all of those are “murder”—some are clearly justified.
The Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence
> The idea is that if you can produce an accurate probably distribution over the next bit/byte/token...

But how can you get credible probability distributions from the LLMs? My understanding is that the outputs specifically can't be interpreted as a probability distribution, even though superficially they resemble a PMF, due to the way the softmax function tends to predict close to 100% for the predicted token. You can still get an ordered list of most probable tokens (which I think beam search exploits), but they specifically aren't good representations of the output probability distribution since they don't model the variance well.
> it should be easier to write systems from scratch, rather than to have to use third party code for everything. computers currently are not condusive to this. they need to be built different, to allow software to be built different.

Yes.

We also need to encourage user scripting of first party library APIs on devices.

iOS Shortcuts are a step in the right direction, but they need better tooling to maintain and distribute source-controlled shortcuts.
Today's generative LLM model fundamentally cannot generate new breakthroughs like that. The tech simply doesn't allow it, for one simple reason: LLMs not only don't consider, but are fundamentally incapable of considering, the science of their output before creating said output. They only consider the likelihood that each word they generate should follow the previous based on a trillion inputs.

We might as well use a random chemical element generator, plug that into our models, and save a ton of money on compute instead.

At best Gen AI can be used to create inputs for massive N genetic simulation problems. Most of its suggestions will be bad, but maybe another program can filter the good ones out.
If you use black for “bad” or destructive operations and white for “good” or creative operations, you’re perpetuating literal anti-blackness.
Here in Ukraine, the grid is no longer 100% reliable for obvious (and highly intentional) reasons. Solar is somewhat inconvenient to use in large cities, and cloudy days are common. A variety of generator types and sizes can be seen instead. Living in an apartment, I have an Ecoflow Delta 2 Max as my first line and a 3.5kW gasoline/natgas generator as my second line. Most of the time, there is some power at some hours of the day, so the Ecoflow can store it. If it runs out, I can run an extension power cord down from my balcony, lug the generator down into the yard, and use it to charge the Ecoflow. I do have plans to buy a solar panel and put it on the building roof with a Starlink, but it would require negotiating with the neighbors and stuff.
Gasoline storage really is an issue, though. Currently I just hope I'll have enough money to buy it as needed.
I did this (uranium and nuclear ETF) when the Russian invasion started.
Thanks for the link. That’s a great reminder for how to live.
With hindsight it's not the runtime behaviour of the library that you'd want to test - the weakest point in the chain is where the distributed source .tar.gz can't be regenerated from the project repository.
This feels like the "defund/abolish the police" issue again. "Please retire this particular testing regime which seems to game-able via wealth and which further entrenches existing disparities," gets turned into and mischaracterized as, "Get rid of numeric ratings," because it's easier to argue against AND allows for an even more incumbent-advantageous solution to be implemented if it happens to be toppled.

If we went with the actual recommendation (e.g., to complete the analogy sandwich, "dismantle the current institution and establish a new one with a fundamentally different structure which allows for security/investigation functions to be carried out without the baggage of the previous institution"), something might actually change for the better, and we can't have that.
I'm sure that having two dials costs more to produce than a crappy membrane keypad, and that the product manager was nearing retirement.
This is an awesome read. Really enjoyed the level of detail and the various tries before things work.
I agree about the tone, but that RAM 1500 doesn't have a lot of empty space under the hood because it is necessary for a crumple zone. It's the design of the frame rails and passenger safety cage that determines the crumple zone, the empty space has no effect on this. That empty space is there because of packaging requirements for various drivetrain options and because of styling.
well, shoot. these kind of responses were always saccharine and formulaic. "we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience" and "we appreciate your patience" and "rest assured ..."

oh so very "from the heart". as long as it changes nothing material, of course.

with AI, they'll be no more helpful or more human. but at least they'll be faster and spelt correctly.
The new Cascadia Code update has both braille and octants. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code-240...
Given my experience with LLMs I am skeptical that enough prompt engineering and tuning can adequately summarize patient records. I don't expect an LLM to adequately interpret data in a way that is useful to me. While much is missed on skimming records, an AI summary sounds like a false sense of security.
Just want to point out that GitHub removing the asset after 15 minutes is actually worse than leaving it. The least appetizing aspect of this for adversaries is that your payload is now forever available to anyone with the logs. If it were adversary’s choice (submit the issue and it stays, only draft the issue and it gets wiped, good riddance, a phenomenal c2 stager indeed!)
I dont like the DEI industry, but affirmative action is good. Slavery ended 150 years ago and its disgraceful that so many African-Americans still live zero wealth, poor jobs, with second rate schools and healthcare. Many/most corporate jobs really dont require a lot of unique skills, its good that employers have a preference to hire under represented minorities, hopefully it'll help improve society for all of us.
What did I dismiss?

By all accounts they sounds quite successful as well as appreciative of their undergraduate advisor.

Engage in their experience? See above. Should I have snuck in there somewhere “nice job kind gentle person, you succeeded” or something?

What world view is that?
I downloaded it thanks to your comment, from this site:

http://www.cpm.z80.de/develop.htm

Worked first time to create a simple "Hello World" program, but many of the included examples fail to compile for me, with random errors:

RM.C: 20: String too long (or missing quote)

CP.C: 56: Curly-braces mismatched somewhere in this definition

I'll have to explore more thoroughly later, but thanks for the prod!
I'm nobody so you have no reason to believe me - but there have indeed been other, very prominent projects targeted in very similar attacks. We're still inside the responsible disclosure window.. hell, even in the blog post we're commenting on, three JS projects were targeted in failed attempts. That's 4 public projects now..
Yes Europeans invented slavery, but the deadliest war as a percentage of the population in American history was the American Civil War. This lead to a period of violent segregation and repression even after the Union won. In many places Black people had effectively fewer rights than naturalized and second generation immigrants and until at least 1964.

I agree that there is other complexity for the US psyche but slavery and segregation is huge.
Seems like this isn’t always the case, so your statement shouldn’t be so absolute:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/28/young-wom...
I mean, whats that bit from Norm McDonnell about how he’s still worried about the Germans, “it was basically them versus the world and it was kind of close!”
As someone who FIREd, his assumptions of 5% real returns and 4% SWR may not hold in the future.

He himself also retired with a free and clear home and a free and clear rental home, which meant he didn't have to tap into his capital, not to mention $400k annual blog revenue shortly after.

But generally I enjoyed his articles over the years and a high savings rate combined with investing is always a wise choice.
What an odd comment to make on a story that was literally about NetBSD's maintenance work on X.org
Most people aren't Chinese readers.
Others up above were discussing passenger vehicles.

For trucks on the highway, it is a much better idea, but for many of those cases, you'd be significantly better off investing in more rail.
Thanks for sharing [1], that was a great read. I'd be curious to see an updated version of that article, since it's about 6 years old now. For example, Boston Dynamics has transitioned from MPC to RL for controlling its Spot robots [2]. Davide Scaramuzza, whose team created autonomous FPV drones that beat expert human pilots, has also discussed how his team had to transition from MPC to RL [3].

[2]: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/starting-on-the-right-foot-w...

[3]: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/13775734-ep15-david...
Related Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [0] (197 points, 6 years ago, 82 comments)
I'm Jonna Mendez, the Former Chief of Disguise for the CIA. Ask Me Anything [1](10 points, 5 years ago)
The CIA’s Former Chief of Disguise Drops Her Mask [2](2+2+3 points, 4 years ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18291780
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691010
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796397
> the non-thinking, car-driving traffic engineers solution to “if we put two bollards on the sides of the trail, there’s enough space for a car to go between them, so we’ll save some money while we make things SAFER.”

That doesn't make sense to me. The entire reason the bollard exists is to stop cars from turning into the bike path.

It has nothing to do with non-thinking engineers. It has nothing to do with saving money.

It's because if there's space for a car to fit between them, then the bollards will not fulfill their one and only purpose.

EDIT: Note that I'm not saying that it's a good design. But I am saying it didn't come about for the reasons you're saying.
It seems like this just assumes the conclusion?

“ As an imprecise working definition (not for all times and places but for the United States today), “far right” is used here to mean political forces that (a) regard human inequality as natural, ”
I think U+2588 Full Block would work?
Yes but Black people in the US have been historically treated _worse_ than immigrants, which is entirely unnecessary and leads to a lot of efforts to fix the results of previous subjugation.
Not a single person who uses Word and Excel daily would agree with you. Apple the “great product” company has been at it forever and so have many open source competitors and none come close to how good word and excel are.

This seems to be the problem with engineers: “I use eMacs on Linux so that’s the greatest product for everyone.”
These aren't just web pages. They're full applications with robust, rich state.

Web apps can reach the complexity of a desktop app with a GUI, a game, etc.

I say this as a mostly backend / systems engineer: there is an incredible wealth of complexity in the frontend. In user interaction, making and transforming API calls, and in UI/UX design.
That's fine. Just if later in life you come to a revelation that does make the term click for you, do yourself a favor and make sure you keep going with the questioning rather than taking your newly altered model as unassailable truth and thinking you're out.
You make it sound like Scientology or some such. The analogy might be apt.
I think that’s consistent with the example that I gave. I suspect someone who said “I plan to give all multiple choice exams in order to simplify grading.” in their teaching statement would likely get a poor rating?

(The 76% refers to applications to an “Advancing diversity” grant program, so it seems a bit duplicitous to suggest it represents happens in faculty hiring?)
I'm curious about this system as it exists in your house. Who gets to decide when the time to cry is?
There are so many untrue statements in this post, I don’t even know where to begin:

> Israel's neighbors kill and displace Muslims at a far greater rate than Israel would even dream

What are you talking about? Are you saying that Israel wants to kill Muslims?

Israel has so far killed over 34000 Palestinians in the ongoing genocide. This level of killing is nowhere to be found in the neighboring region. You’ll have to go all the way to Sudan to find a similar number, where there is a civil war, and (yes) a plausible genocide. Even before Oct 7. in 2023 alone Israel killed at least 278 Palestinians in the West Bank (including 70 children). You don’t see these kind of number in the neighboring countries.

> The pro-Palestinian movement has a literal, direct, documented connection to Nazis

Where? Can you provide me with a source. I don’t recall this in the news. And even if they did, this does not negate the Palestinian cause. If a particular member of a particular movement has documented connection to Nazis, and said movement does not kick that person out and denounce them, then that single movement should be denounced, and this would not affect other movements.

> and its behavior is entirely dedicated to the elimination of the only Jewish state in existence without compromise or negotiation

I’ll leave aside for a moment the fact that you take it as a given that a particular groups should have an ethno-state deticated to them, but who wants to eliminate Israel without compromise or negotiations? Most of everybody wants negotiations, even staunch proponents of a 1-state solution usually want guaranteed civil rights to Jews and Arabs alike (albeit, sometimes omitting recent settlers in occupied West Bank from this). Even Hamas is currently advocating for a 2 state solution with a right to return for displaced Palestinians. Who is this group that doesn’t want any compromise or negotiations. Honestly Israel is much more uncompromising than any pro-Palestinian actor.

That said, being against an ethno-state is not an unreasonable, nor a racist position to take. A lot of people wanted Rhodesia to stop existing, they were not racists, they simply didn’t think it was reasonable that a segregationist settler colonial state should exist on indigenous lands.

> "The Zionists" is a dog whistle

It is not. Zionism is an ideology distinct from Judasim. There are plenty of non-zionist Jews, and even more non-Jewish Zionists. Zionism is neither a necessary, nor a sufficient condition of Judaism. Most pro-Palistinian demonstrators do in fact call out non-Jewish zionists, such as Joe Biden, all the time.
Sad to not have a picture of the cannon when used as a bollard. It is hard to imagine from the picture what it gives.
I think that you are arguing against equity not equality. Usually the latter means “equality of opportunity”. At least that’s typically the difference in most debates.
Meditations on Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Better idea: Hire an "internal recruiter" on a contractual basis.
The blog post is not very informative, main site:

https://plang.is
We use esp32-s3 at my company (smart speaker) but we don't don anything fancy.

Can you explain this? Why use esp as a peripheral if you already have an ARM chip?

We were considering moving off of esp to something that would make it easier do cpu-bound AI inference on-device or to enable more advanced audio DSP algos.
U+2588
And thus the emergence and rise of "opinionated software".
I predict Wayland will be dead long before we stop using X.
One of the things about evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a safety feature is that there's implicitly a monetary value assigned to human life, when you know the probability of something saving a life and the amount of money that thing costs.

https://www.transportation.gov/office-policy/transportation-...

For 2022, the US Department of Transportation benchmarks that at $12.5 million and that's the number used to decide if something is cost-effective.

If one is proposing that society spends more on road-safety, that's more or less saying that $12.5 million should be higher. So what should it be? Are we ok with spending $20 million? $50 million? $100 million? Because that's the question we're implicitly answering when we decide if a proposal such as bollards are cost-effective.
More like it gets hard to achieve anything else because all other heavy duty sectors of the economy are already monopolized.

When Google entered the telco space you would think they would easily take down the ancient parasites that are AT&T/Verizon/Comcast, but what happened?

Same story with Apple trying to get into auto/banking (credit cards)/content.

So the money is only going to be used in this way. They can't touch Exxon or Monsanto or Pfizer or Boeing. They can't do a thing about housing or education or health or banks.

So burning cash on novelty becomes their default path of least resistance. "Useful areas" have all been walled up.
Language select used to have a flag of current language. Political correctness might have made companies change that convention making it hard to find as you say, but it used to be that you looked for flags to find the language setting.

I remember windows having flags for the languages, but now it is a strange A symbol that I have no clue what it is and I'd have no chance of finding if it was in the wrong language.
Isn’t that exactly the point?

“Clean up” is clearly a euphemism for some sort of money funnel.

Hanford.gov even readily admits this!

“In April 2009, the Hanford Site received a nearly $2 billion in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Contractors quickly hired thousands of new employees for temporary stimulus jobs in environmental cleanup.”
To parse your statement we need to understand what genocide means to you. For most it means the systemic killing of every person of a certain genetic identity. Is that what you believe is happening or something else?

If genocide is illegal than covering up would be the only logical move. Therefore it would be normal.
Money isn’t a resource.
> I've been thinking of inserting a "// THIS LINE IS MALICIOUS, PLEASE REPORT IF YOU SEE IT" in some of my projects to see how long it would take.

Tools that use LLMs to review code will catch such projects.
People here think you _are_ YC. Little do they know you're far more perceptive and capable than YC.
I think the Manhattan project had a lot of consideration towards making it economical. (and huge government programs weren't quite so common back then) Plus, I think things that were returned/recycled weren't counted against the total. e.g. the $600 million worth of silver they borrowed to make calutrons, because there was a copper shortage.
History may record XZ alongside Spectre/Meltdown as industry turning points for "too wide to see".